Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-07-15
STILL BETTER MAI. FACILITIES.
Another Mail to San Francisco-What
Has Recently Been Accomplished.

Another Mail to San Francisco-What
Has Recently Been Accomplished.
The business people of Sacramento have
reason to congratulate themselves upon
the greatly improved mail facilities which
have been procured recently through the
efforts of Postmaster Stephens. Only q
few days since the additional mail was OBJ
tanned which leaves San Francisco at $50
P. NJ, and reaches here at $40, and also the
mail by direct.pouch via San Jose to Santa
Cruz, reaching there the same day, making
saving of "a hours. Also, by the same
arrangement a special pouch is sent on the
Jose, to Pacific Grove, by which the same
amount of time as above mentioned is
saved.
By arrangements completed yesterday
another mail is provided for between Sac
ramento and the Bay, to leave here at 400
A. n, by the Portland and San Francisco ex-
press, and reaching the latter city at 7:40.
This makes gain of over three hours,
which for business purposes is very i'm
portant
The following correspondence, through
which this last mail was obtained, is self
explanatory:
PosroFFIcE DEPARTMENT,
OFFICE OF POSTMASTER,
SACRAMENTO (Cal.) }, July II, 1887.
To Jas. L. Wilder, Esq, .Supt. X, H. S.,
San Francisco, Cdl-DEAR SIR: With a
view of furnishing the business men of
this city the best possible mail facilities,
have TO suggest for your consideration the
advisability of instructing me to pouch
direct on the San Francisco office, the
pouch to be sent by the Oregon express
train leaving here at o'clock A. NJ.
All mail received at this Office between
the hours of go and $40 P. NJ can be sent
in the pouch in question.
| find upon examination that there are
now on hand over three hundred letters
that have been deposited in this office since
the hour for closing the mail for San Fran
cisco this afternoon-it is now P. M-and
there will be great number of letters Drop
ped in later in the evening that would be
deposited in time to be included with the
mail closing at $40 P. NJ. if it was known
they would go by the early train.
hope that my suggestion will be favor
ably considered, as | am sure the business
men of this city will fully appreciate any
action on your part that will secure for
them such improved mail service. Yours,
respectfully.
~. ~ plhfhhNS, IOSlulaSteG.
REPLY TO THE ABOVE.
RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE.
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT,
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, July ID, 1887.
r. ID. Stephens, Esq, Postmaster, Sacra-
mento, Cdl.-SIR: Replying to yours of
the 18th in relation to pouch from your
Office to San Francisco on the Oregon ex-
press, will state that l think the sugges-
ton capital one, and accordingly you
will place pouch on San Francisco via the
above mentioned train, commencing on
Friday, the 10Th inst. Very respectfully,
JAS. L. WELDER, Superintendent.
| By this arrangement all letters for San
Francisco, deposited in the Postoffice after
go P. NJ, and before 6:45 P. NJ, will be sent
by direct pouch on the 400 next morning.
! 1t should be remembered that letters to go
by this mail must be deposited in the office
by Gas p. NJ. Those deposited after that
hour at night for San Francisco, will go by
the regular overland mail at 7:20 A. NJ